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Dan Guido

CEO, Trail of Bits

Search every verified Dan Guido interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dan Guido, CEO of the security firm Trail of Bits, has been publicly discussing the company's transition to an "AI-native" operating model. In a July 2026 interview with Tim O'Reilly, Guido described a three-tier capability matrix for employees—adaptive, capable, and transformative—where "transformative" engineers drive new tool adoption. He stated that about 20% of bugs the firm finds for clients are initially discovered by AI, and that the go-to-market team is outperforming industry averages through AI use. Guido also said that a single bad first experience with AI can lose a user for months, and that the company invested in preventing embarrassing AI failures. In a June 2026 talk, Guido argued that the main barrier to AI adoption is people, not technology, and that simply giving employees AI tools without changing workflows yields no measurable productivity gain. He reported that Trail of Bits built a curated marketplace for AI skills and plugins, and that the firm's bug-finding rate increased from 15 to 200 per week on some engagements. Guido has also commented on the security implications of AI, stating that the capacity to produce attack capability has outpaced the capacity to process it, and that the opportunity for defense using AI is larger than for offense. He has expressed admiration for North Korean hackers' ability to write novel tools on the fly, and noted that the insecurity of blockchain protocols is funding North Korea.

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“I mean, I know their their GDP is something like $25 billion a year, and if they're stealing $1 to 2 billion a year, like this is a huge material impact to how much money their entire country has. Um, like, yes, the insecurity of blockchain protocols is funding nukes in North Korea.”

“The business is really shifting. I think consulting today may not last that long; we're looking at billing by hours today, but in a future where everybody has an arsenal of agents and some people can outperform others by 200x, I think you have to start billing by expertise and by results.”

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